Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σκεϋή ‎(skeüḗ)

Noun

σκευή • ‎(skeuḗ) f ‎(genitive σκευῆς); first declension

1. equipment, attire, apparel, dress, trappings
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.15
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 555
   • 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 180
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.130
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Crito 53.d
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 21.4
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.24
   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 108
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 577.b
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.94
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.8
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.94
   • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Collected Works 1.112
   • 4th century BC, Eubulus, Collected Works 71
   1. fashion, style of dress or equipment
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.62
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.66
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.73
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.6
2. tackle, as of a net or ship
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.80
   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 14.79
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Act.Ap. 27.19
   1. Synonym of αἰδοῖον ‎(aidoîon, “privy parts”, “pudenda”)
      • Palatine Anthology 5.241
      • Eratosth.

Declension

Derived terms

• πᾰρᾰσκευή ‎(paraskeuḗ)

References

• σκευή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press